CanadianCRC Editor:
This article contains sexist wording that would never have been used had the rapist been a man and it was sex with the 14 year old female.
We have highlighted the sexists words in red. REVERSE the genders on
this story and see how it looks. What a double standard!

35-year-old Saskatchewan woman mistakenly thought
14-year-old boy was of age to consent

CBC News, By Kathleen Harris, CBC News, Jul 06, 2017

The Supreme Court of Canada will explain Friday why it threw out
sexual assault charges against a woman who had sex with ( try sexually assaulted) the 14-year-old
friend of her son.

In May, justices ruled that Saskatchewan resident Barbara George, who
was 35 at the time of the sexual encounter, should not face a new trial
for sexual interference and sexual assault. It will present written
reasons for that decision.

The crux of the case is around age of consent, and a section of the
Criminal Code that requires an adult to take "reasonable steps" to
determine the age of a person before engaging in sex with them.

George was acquitted of the charges because the trial judge found the
sexual activity was "factually consensual" — that she honestly believed
the boy was at least 16, and there was reasonable doubt she had not
taken all reasonable steps to determine the age of "C.D.," whose full
name is protected by a publication ban.

He was attending a party at her home the night of the encounter.

According to documents filed by the appellant with the Supreme Court,
George assumed C.D. was over the age of 16 because he had facial hair, a
mature demeanour and apparent sexual experience. He also smoked and took
care of his younger siblings.

Change the gender and see how this looks: And if the above read
that "The girl had a mature body with large mature breasts and curved hips, a
mature demeanour and apparent sexual experience. He also smoked and took
care of his younger siblings. "

According to the documents, George did not realize how old he was
until several months later, when she applied to become an RCMP officer.
One of the questions on the questionnaire asked if she had ever had
sexual activity with someone under 16.

RCMP application leads to charges

After checking with her son about the age of C.D., she answered the
form in the affirmative.

That led to an RCMP investigation and subsequent charges laid against
her.

George was acquitted at trial. While the judge said she exhibited
an "appalling lack of judgment" by talking to the complainant in her
bedroom for several hours that night, there was not enough evidence to
show she deliberately broke the law.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, in a majority decision, allowed the
Crown's subsequent appeal, sending the matter to the country's highest
court.

"This case involves a 35-year-old woman who was the sole parent and
adult at a high school party when she had sexual intercourse with a boy
who was half her age and young enough to be her teenage son," reads a
court document filed by the respondent, the Attorney General of
Saskatchewan.

"Despite all of that, she took no steps to ascertain the
complainant's age before she had sex with him. In fact, she did not turn
her mind to the issue of the complainant's age at all until months
later."

In 2008, the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper raised the
legal age of consent in Canada from 14 to 16, the first change to the
law since 1892.
More..

After Plymouth case shocked the nation, police say number of women abusing children

The Guardian UK and The Observer, by Mark Townsend and Rajeev Syal, Sunday 4 October 2009

Child sex abuse by women is significantly more widespread than
previously realised, with experts estimating that there could be up
to 64,000 female offenders in Britain.

Researchers from the Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF), a
child protection charity that deals with British female sex
offenders, said its studies confirmed that a "fair proportion" of
child abusers were women. Donald Findlater, director of research and
development, said results indicated that up to 20% of a conservative
estimate of 320,000 suspected UK paedophiles were women.

The release of the figures comes days after a Plymouth nursery
school worker, Vanessa George – together with Angela Allen from
Nottingham and Colin Blanchard from Rochdale – pleaded guilty to
sexually abusing young children.

Young woman, who was 15 when she was arrested, led operation that trafficked
other teen girls

CBC News Nov 04, 2014 - An 18-year-old female who led an operation that trafficked other
female teenagers using
social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter today received an adult
sentence of 6½ years in a correctional facility. The young woman was given
credit for time she's already served in pre-sentence custody, meaning she
will only serve another two years and 325 days.

The 18-year-old was arrested
in 2012, when she was 15, for leading the operation with two other teens as
they recruited other girls through social media sites like Facebook and
Twitter, before drugging and beating them and forcing them into
prostitution.

The 18-year-old was the only one who pleaded not guilty in her trial, but
she was found guilty this January. The two other teens entered mid-trial
guilty pleas in September 2013 for their roles in the violent pimping
operation.

Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the 18-year-old faced a
maximum sentence of three years. Under the adult Criminal Code, she faced a
minimum sentence of five years. More ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. USA -- The mother of a 10-year-old New
Mexico girl found dead and dismembered told police she
sought men online and at work to sexually assault her
daughter, according to warrants obtained by the
Albuquerque Journal.

Michelle Martens told police that she had set up
encounters with at least three men to sexually assault
her daughter, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The child's death
sparked vigils and outcry across the state.

Martens, 35, told investigators that one of the men
was a co-worker. Two others she met online, including
Fabian Gonzales, 31. He was to be the last.

Martens, Gonzales, and Jessica Kelley -- a cousin of
Gonzales -- all face charges in connection with Victoria
Martens' death.

Police found Victoria Martens' dismembered body last
month inside the apartment she shared with her mother.

According to the warrants, Martens told investigators
she didn't do it for the money. Martens said she set up
the sexual assaults because she enjoyed watching. More..

A Polk County female teacher already jailed for supposedly carrying on a love affair with a 17-year-old student now faces 20 additional counts of unlawful sex with another student, the Polk County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday.

Jennifer Fichter, 29, was jailed last week after her alleged four-month sexual relationship with a 17-year-old boy at Central Florida Aerospace Academy in Lakeland came to light. Polk County sheriff's investigators this week say the English teacher had consensual sex with another one of her students over a seven-month period beginning in October 2011.

The 17-year-old boy was a junior in Fichter's English class at the time, and the two communicated with a texting application which the boy downloaded to his iPod since he did not have a cell phone, according to an arrest report. The boy told investigators at first he and Fichter two would spend time in the teacher's apartment watching TV and cuddling on the couch in September 2011. The relationship then became sexual the following month. Some of the sexual encounters happened in the boy's bedroom while his mother was away, according to an arrest report. More..

Female Perpetration of Child Sexual Abuse: An Overview of the Problem

The American Humane Association which was responsible for gathering data from the yearly reports provided by the 50 U.S. states child protective agencies from 1973 through 1987 on child sexual abuse. They
found that approximately 20 percent of substantiated cases of child sexual abuse during that time period had been perpetrated by females. More
..

We bring you this section of our website to increase your awareness of
the problem. Hopefully, this increased awareness will protect more boys and
girls from male and female sexual predators.

Notice how in some of the articles the term "affair" or "relationship"
or "slept with" is used if the perpetrator is female. When the perpetrator is
male it is more likely called "sexual assault" or "rape".

According to David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research
Center at the University of New Hampshire, U.S.A. and stated in one of the largest
newspapers in the U.S.A., the rise in recognition and prosecution of female
sexual predators is due at least in part to the increased number of female police
officers. Apparently, this results in prosecution of female sexual predators
for their crimes without the police being labelled misogynistic.

From the Health Canada report of
1996

The Invisible Boy: Revisioning the Victimization of Male Children
and Teens

Female Perpetrators

As recently as 10 years ago, it was a common assumption that females did
not or could not sexually abuse children or youth. Even some professionals working
in the field believed that women represented only about 1% to 3% of sexual abusers
at most. However, mounting research evidence about sexual abuse perpetration
at the hands of teen and adult females has begun to challenge our assumptions,
though these earlier and dated views still tend to predominate.

The percentage of women and teenage girl perpetrators recorded in case report
studies is small and ranges from 3% to 10% (Kendall-Tackett and Simon, 1987;
McCarty, 1986; Schultz and Jones, 1983; Wasserman and Kappel, 1985). When the
victim is male, female perpetrators account for 1 % to 24% of abusers. When
the victim is female, female perpetrators account for 6% to 17% of abusers (American
Humane Association, 1981; Finkelhor and Russell, 1984; Finkelhor et al., 1990).
In the Ontario Incidence Study, 10% of sexual abuse investigations involved
female perpetrators (Trocme, 1994). However, in
six studies reviewed by Russell and Finkelhor,
female perpetrators accounted for 25% or more of abusers. Ramsay-Klawsnik
(1990) found that adult females were abusers of males 37% of the time and female
adolescents 19% of the time. Both of these rates
are higher than the same study reported for adult and teen male abusers.

Dynamics of Female-Perpetrated Abuse

Some research has reported that female perpetrators commit fewer and less
intrusive acts of sexual abuse compared to males. While male perpetrators are
more likely to engage in anal intercourse and to have the victim engage in oral-genital
contact, females tend to use more foreign objects as part of the abusive act
(Kaufman et al., 1995). This study also reported that differences were not found
in the- frequency of vaginal intercourse, fondling by the victim or abuser,
genital body contact without penetration or oral contact by the abuser.

Females may be more likely to use verbal coercion than physical force. The
most commonly reported types of abuse by female perpetrators include vaginal
intercourse, oral sex, fondling and group sex (Faller, 1987; Hunter et al.,
1993). However, women also engage in mutual masturbation, oral, anal and genital
sex acts, show children pornography and play sex games (Johnson, 1989; Knopp
and Lackey, 1987). The research suggests that, overall, female and male perpetrators
commit many of the same acts and follow many of the same patterns of abuse against
their victims. They also do not tend to differ significantly in terms of their
relationship to the victim (most are relatives) or the location of the abuse
(Allen, 1990; Kaufman et al., 1995).

It is interesting to note in the study by Kaufman et al. (1995) that 8% of
the female perpetrators were teachers and 23% were babysitters, compared to
male perpetrators who were 0% and 8% respectively. Finkelhor et al. (1988) also
report significantly higher rates of sexual abuse of children by females in
day-care settings. Of course, Finkelhor's findings should not surprise us given
that women represent the majority of day-care employees.

Research on teen and adult female sexual abuse perpetrators has found that
many suffer from low self-esteem, antisocial behaviour, poor social and anger
management skills, fear of rejection, passivity, promiscuity, mental health
problems, post-traumatic stress disorder and mood disorders (Hunter et al.,
1993; Mathews, Matthews and Speltz, 1989). However, as in the case of male perpetrators,
research does not substantiate that highly emotionally disturbed or psychotic
individuals predominate among the larger population of female sexual abusers
(Faller, 1987).

There is some evidence that females are more likely to be involved with co-abusers,
typically a male, though studies report a range from 25% to 77% (Faller, 1987;
Kaufman et al., 1995; McCarty, 1986). However, Mayer (1992), in a review of
data on 17 adolescent female sex offenders, found that only 2 were involved
with male co-perpetrators. She also found that the young women in this study
knew their victims and that none experienced legal consequences for their actions.

Self-report studies provide a very different view of sexual abuse perpetration
and substantially increase the number of female perpetrators. In a retrospective
study of male victims, 60% reported being abused by females (Johnson and Shrier,
1987). The same rate was found in a sample of college students (Fritz et al.,
l 981). In other studies of male university and college students, rates of female
perpetration were found at levels as high as 72% to 82% (Fromuth and Burkhart,
1987, 1989; Seidner and Calhoun, 1984). Bell et al. (1981) found that 27% of
males were abused by females. In some of these types of studies, females represent
as much as 50% of sexual abusers (Risin and Koss, 1987). Knopp and Lackey (1987)
found that 51% of victims of female sexual abusers were male. It is evident
that case report and self-report studies yield very different types of data
about prevalence. These extraordinary differences tell us we need to start questioning
all of our assumptions about perpetrators and victims of child maltreatment.

Finally, there is an alarmingly high rate of
sexual abuse by females in the backgrounds of rapists, sex offenders and sexually
aggressive men - 59% (Petrovich and Templer, 1984), 66% (Groth, 1979) and 80%
(Briere and Smiljanich, 1993). A strong case for the need to identify
female perpetrators can be found in Table 4, which presents the findings from
a study of adolescent sex offenders by O'Brien (1989). Male adolescent sex offenders
abused by "females only" chose female victims almost exclusively.

Table 4

Victim Gender Based on Who Previously Abused the Perpetrator

Gender of Perpetrators' Own Victimizer

Gender of Victim Male or Both

Female Only

Male only

67.5%

32.5%

Female only

6.7%

93.3%

Berkowitz (1993), in a Winnipeg-based study of sexually abused males in treatment
groups, found the following rates of perpetration.

The Canadian Children's Rights Council recommends
this video documentary to all law makers, police, child protection workers,
educators, school teachers and organizations concerned about recognizing female
sexual predators.

This documentary originally aired on CTV in August, 2001

Reporter comments about a female sexual predator:

"In September 1997, she was making her first court
appearance and I remember the first time I saw her I was immediately flabbergasted
because she looked so innocent. She was so slight, small in her build, and so
young, and I thought, 'she can't be a sex offender, it's impossible.'"

"When Girls Do It" is a 45-minute video examining the
motivations of female sexual predators, the destructive effects of their actions
on their victims, and the reluctance of victims to come forward.

"When Girls Do It" features compelling testimony and
powerful interviews with survivors of abuse by female sexual offenders, therapists,
and psychologists. The documentary delves into related issues including the
long-held misconception that sexual abuse of children is exclusively a male
crime.

Vancouver filmmaker Glynis Whiting produced, a hard-hitting investigation
of one of the most under-reported crimes in North America. When Girls
Do It: The Story of Female Sexual Predators is a provocative and passionate
look at the motivations of women who abuse and the devastating effects of their
crime on their victims.

"We're always shocked to hear stories of sexual abuse, but it seems all the
more disturbing when the abusers are women," said Whiting, who wrote and directed
the groundbreaking documentary.

Maureen Prentice, who produced When Girls Do It with Whiting,
added, "There is a long-held perception in society of women as nurturing mother
figures. Victims of female sexual abuse are often reluctant to come forward
because they fear not being believed."

The most common offenders are relatives, with mothers topping the list.
But it could be anyone baby-sitters, neighbours or teachers. More ..

Female Sexual Offenders / Predators in the News

A Special Report: Raped by His Mother - A Victim Comes Forward

Teacher gets six months

The Standard-Freeholder, Cornwall, ON, By DAVID NESSETH, October 30, 2008

Former Ingleside teacher Jennifer Dorland was sentenced to six months
in jail Tuesday for a sexual relationship with a male student in 2004.

Dorland is in her early 40s; the boy - whose identity is protected by
a publication ban - was 13 at the time of the incident at Dorland's
Ingleside home.

Dorland, who is now known as Jennifer Toews, was found guilty of
sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching on
Dec. 20, 2007.
More..

The Canadian Children's Rights Council has a project underway to compare laws of a few countries to those of Canada and the penalties associated with those sex crimes committed against children.

Female Teacher's licence revoked following sex convictions

Ottawa Citizen, Andrew Seymour, Wednesday, May 28, 2008

A Cornwall-area female teacher convicted of sexually assaulting
a 13-year-old student has had her teacher's licence revoked.

The Ontario College of Teachers withdrew the teaching
licence of Jennifer Dorland, 42, earlier this month after
finding her guilty of eight counts of professional
misconduct under the Ontario College of Teachers Act.

Ms. Dorland, who now goes by the name Jennifer Toews, pleaded no
contest to the accusations. She did not attend the May 6 hearing or have
a lawyer make arguments on her behalf.

In their decision, the three-member disciplinary panel found that Ms.
Dorland's actions "betrayed the trust of students, parents and the
public."
More..

Babysitter jailed for sexually assaulting boy

Woman, 40, handed 2 1/2 years for multiple sexual encounters

CanadianCRC Editor: Notice the discriminatory wording
if the sexual offender is female and the child that was sexually assaulted is male. The
use of the words "affair", "relationship", "sexual encounter",
"sexual tryst". Notice
that she didn't get jail time. The female judge agreed that the offender should
get 2 1/2 years in jail and then gave her time "in the community", effectively
no sentence. The female sexual predator also blamed her actions on her ex-husband
and the boy victim, a common pattern these days in which female perpetrators
of domestic violence are told they are always the victim.

For months Pamela Ruth Collins bonded with the 12-year-old boy she was hired
to babysit.

But that’s not all the former Halifax woman was doing.

Ms. Collins, 40, was sentenced Monday to 2½ years in prison for seducing
the now 15-year-old Halifax boy into having sex with her on dozens of occasions
between July 1, 2004, and May 20, 2005. More..

Quebec woman gets 15 months for having sex with boy when he was 13

Canadian Press, various newspapers and media across Canada, Thursday, March 29, 2007

QUEBEC (CP) - A Quebec woman who had sex with a 13-year-old boy has been
sentenced to 15 months in prison.

The relationship between Julie Dorval, 31, and the boy began after the youth
made advances over the Internet. Within about three months they had sex on several
occasions. Youth protection services were called after Dorval and the teenager
were seen walking hand-in-hand and hugging each other. Dorval pleaded guilty
last April to sexual assault.

Prosecutors had been seeking a sentence of at least two years in a federal
penitentiary, while the defence suggested a conditional sentence of nine to
12 months.

CanadianCRC editor's note: Notice how in cases
in which the adult sexual predator is a female, the articles use words such
as above "having sex" or below "having an affair" and not sexual assault. If this had been a 31
year old male who sexually assaulted a 13 year old female, the sentence is
typically more. In addition, sentencing a male perpetrator to at least 2
years in prison would put the prisoner in federal penitentary.

Convicted female sex offender:

Claire Lyte on her way into court.

'How I found my 13-year-old daughter having sex with her lesbian tennis
coach'

Daily Mail, Liverpool, UK, By JAMES TOZER - 3rd October 2007

The mother of a young tennis star yesterday described the moment she allegedly
found the 13-year-old and her female coach naked in bed together.

The woman said she screamed "You are nothing but a paedophile!" at 29-year-old
Claire Lyte after stumbling across the pair performing sex acts on each other.

However, she told a court she did not report the incident to police because
Lyte's father begged her not to ruin her coaching career and insisted it would
not happen again.
More..

"Wicked" lesbian tennis coach jailed
for nearly three years over affair with 13-year-old
pupil

Daily Mail, Liverpool, UK,By LIZ HULL, 2nd November 2007

A tennis coach who molested a 13-year-old girl pupil was
condemned as "wicked" yesterday as she was jailed for
almost three years.

Claire Lyte, 29, was entrusted with helping to
develop the next generation of young stars, but instead
took advantage of the infatuated teenager.

Her breach of trust was exposed when the girl's
mother discovered them naked in bed together, but such
was the hold Lyte had on the youngster that the abuse
continued for months afterwards.

Yesterday, a judge told the former Wimbledon player that she corrupted and manipulated the youngster for her own "selfish sexual ends".
More..

Not Only Men Are Molesters

There is just one female violent sexual predator locked up in the
state, but experts say rape and child abuse by women is vastly
underreported.

The Los Angeles Times, By MAURA DOLAN, Times Staff Writer, August 16, 2002

There are 351 men in California locked up in a state mental hospital
as sexually violent predators, prone to attack again and again.

Then there is Charlotte Mae Thrailkill.

The 43-year-old mother of two is California's only female violent sex
offender, confined to a maximum-security state mental hospital after
experts decided she was too dangerous for release.

Only a handful of women, including Thrailkill, have ever been
confined to mental institutions under state laws that allow for civil
commitments of sex criminals after they have served their prison terms.

Charlotte Mae Thrailkill (Department of Corrections)

Women are less likely than men to commit sex offenses, but they also
are less likely to be reported and prosecuted. Many experts contend that
women commit sex offenses far more often than is generally believed.

"It happens a lot more than gets reported, and I think part of that
is due to our culture," said Steven B. Blum, a consulting psychologist
to a sex offender program in Nebraska. "There are a lot of women who
have sexual contact with teenage boys, and they don't get reported."

Paul Federoff, a forensic psychiatrist in Ottawa, Canada, said one of
the female sex offenders he counsels is an exhibitionist. She opens her
living room curtains and strips off her clothes when people pass by.

He told her that unless she stopped this illegal activity, she would
be arrested.

" 'Doctor, if someone calls up and says he saw me disrobing in the
window, who do you think they are going to arrest? Me or him?' " Federoff
said she replied.

Tracy woman faces charges of kidnapping, raping and killing girl, 8

The Los Angeles Times, By Alexandra Zavis, April 15, 2009

Melissa Huckaby, 28,
cries during her arraignment in which she's charged with murder with the
special circumstances of kidnapping, rape with a foreign object and lewd
or lascivious conduct with a child.

With distraught members of the
suspect's and victim's families present, a judge continues Melissa Huckaby's arraignment to April 24. She is being held in the death a
neighbor girl, Sandra Cantu. More..

Female Flasher begs to be free

Second time she's been convicted

The Winnipeg Sun, SUN MEDIA, by DEAN PRITCHARD, May 29, 2008

A 21-year-old woman convicted for the second time of exposing herself in
front of school children begged to be released from jail yesterday,
claiming she has learned her lesson.

"I promise I won't do it again, I mean it this time," said the woman...

Police arrested the woman May 12 after she exposed her breasts to a
passing truck at the intersection of St. John's Avenue and Charles
Street, in plain view of a nine-year-old boy a short distance away.

"I didn't mean to do that in front of the kid, I didn't see him," the
woman said.

Court heard the woman "frequently acts impulsively" and lives on her own
with the support of around-the-clock social workers.

At the time of her arrest, the woman was bound by a strict probation
order in connection with a similar incident two months earlier.

The woman was standing across the street from an elementary school at
8:30 a.m. when she exposed her breasts to three passing school buses and
dozens of children walking on the sidewalk, community prosecutor Susan
Helenchilde told court.
More..

No jail time for Lafave

The former middle school teacher pleaded guilty to the charges in Hillsborough
and Marion counties. She will serve three years of community control.

Female sexual abusers not as rare as widely believed

WINDSOR, Ont. -- She gave him life and was the only parent he ever
knew. In the way she snapped photos of him sleeping and playing
happily, she was like any other adoring mother. But she also
committed unspeakable acts to his little body, turning him into a
human sex toy in her pornographic broadcasts.

The set of facts involving the Windsor-area mother who sexually
abused her two-year-old son horrified both those involved in the
case and those who’d only heard about it.

“Society expects the mother of a toddler would do everything in her
power to make sure her child is protected from harm,” said the judge
who on Friday handed the 24-year-old woman a 3 1/2-year prison
sentence.

He called her crimes “appalling” and “abhorrent.”

While female sexual abusers are rare in the court system, those who
deal with child sexual abuse know the woman is not unique. She may
be the first Ontario woman to be jailed for making child pornography
featuring her own offspring, but she’s not the first mother to
sexually abuse a child.

A national study released in 2005 shows that biological mothers were
the perpetrators of sexual abuse in 5% of the substantiated cases
investigated by child welfare authorities.

The instance is probably higher, since researchers are certain that
many cases of child sexual abuse never come to light. “A lot of
people have difficulty believing women are capable of sexually
abusing children,” said social worker Angela Hovey, whose doctoral
thesis deals with a topic related to this theme.
More..

Plea Deal in Teacher-Student Sex Case Garnering National Attention

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, January 5, 2007

A
Tooele prosecutor is defending his decision to make a plea deal for a substitute
teacher accused of having sex with a student. It's an issue that's getting national
attention.

Sean Hannity: "Another teacher accused of sex with a student."

In September, a judge ordered the substitute teacher, 29-year-old Cameo Patch,
to serve three years of probation, pay a two-thousand dollars fine, undergo
psychosexual evaluation and take part in treatment. More..

Newspaper claims confirmation of Homolka baby

National Post, Friday, February 09, 2007

The Toronto Sun is claiming it has confirmation that released sex killer
Karla Homolka has given birth to a baby boy.

Citing an anonymous letter sent to the Journal de Montreal, which Ms.
Homolka was first admitted to St. Mary's Hospital with contractions last Tuesday,
well before the rumour mill about her possible baby kicked off.

The Sun story claims under the name Leanne Teale, Homolka gave birth
to a 7-pound baby boy Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal. More..

Woman who cut off her newborn son's private parts handed 5-year prison term

Mainichi Daily News, Sakai, Osaka, Japan, November 26, 2006

SAKAI, Osaka -- A woman accused of cutting off her newborn son's private
parts in 2004 was ordered Monday to spend five years behind bars.

The Sakai branch of the Osaka District Court convicted Shizue Tamura,
27, a resident of Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, of inflicting bodily injury.

"The way she committed the crime was unprecedented, inhumane and cruel,"
Presiding Judge Masahiro Hosoi said as he handed down the ruling. Prosecutors
had demanded an eight-year prison term. More ..

Female Sex Offenders: Double Standard?

Many Say They Don't Get Treated As Harshly As Men

CBS, HAMMONTON, N.J., USA, June 15, 2006

Are all sex offenders treated the same? Does the public take the cases
as seriously when the offender or alleged offender is a woman? Many people are
asking those questions after several highly-publicized scandals involving female
teachers and male students.

As Susan Koeppen observed on The Early Show Thursday,
the majority of sex offenders are men, but it's the women who get a lot of the
attention.

When a beautiful teacher seduces a student, some people think, "What's
the harm?"

But Koeppen spoke with one student who says his "affair" with a teacher
left him devastated.

"I'm still trying to battle back," Jason Eickmeyer told Koeppen. "This
happened in 2003, and it's 2006, and I still can't get it out of my mind." More
..

A History of Sex With Students, Unchallenged

New York Times, U.S.A., By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI, October 10, 2006

BAYONNE, N.J. Many in this gray, insular city are at a loss to explain
why Diane Cherchio West was allowed to continue working in the public school
system for two decades after she was caught in 1980 kissing and groping a 13-year-old
student at an eighth-grade dance.

Why, after her promotion to guidance counselor at Bayonne High School,
no one alerted social services, school officials or the police when she became
pregnant by an 11th grader she supervised, Steven West, and married him upon
his graduation in 1985.

Or why, when that baby, Steven Jr., grew to be a teenager, no one balked
as his 15-year-old friend moved in with Ms. West, who then seduced the friend
with Scooby-Doo boxer shorts and evening jaunts to sports bars and used her
school authority to rearrange his classes around their secret trysts.

It was not until 2001, when relatives of the boy, Christopher Castlegrande,
filed a complaint with the police of statutory rape against Ms. West, that she
left her $74,000-a-year job and lost her unfettered access to Bayonne High Schools
students. More
..

Female Teacher charged with sexual assault

Media Release - Peel Regional Police Services

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Investigators with the Special Victims Unit have arrested
and charged a 36 year-old Mississauga teacher in relation to alleged inappropriate
conduct and contact with a student.

It is alleged that the 17 year-old victim, who is a Mississauga resident,
was taught by the accused at Streetsville Secondary School. During October of
2006, it was discovered the accused had corresponded on-line with the victim,
with e-mails containing sexually explicit content.

It is also alleged that during October 2006, the victim and the accused met
in Mississauga, and at that time a sexual assault occurred. More
..

Woman who lied about rape gets prison

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Thursday, October 12, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A woman who lied about getting pregnant through date
rape and abandoned her newborn in a trash bin was sentenced to prison for the
statutory rape of the baby's father, her 12-year-old cousin.

Twyana Davis, 30, claimed in 1995 that she had been raped at a party,
and told her story in a book and on television.

Davis was sentenced Tuesday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to
10 to 25 years in prison. She had confessed to having a sexual relationship with the cousin, leading to her pregnancy.

Judge Michael J. Holbrook labelled her a sexual predator and fined
her $10,000. More
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Female Sex Offenders: Double Standard?

Many Say They Don't Get Treated As Harshly As Men

CBS NEWS USA, The Early Show, HAMMONTON, N.J., June 15, 2006

(CBS) Are all sex offenders treated the same? Does
the public take the cases as seriously when the offender
or alleged offender is a woman? Many people are asking
those questions after several highly-publicized scandals
involving female teachers and male students.

As Susan Koeppen observed on The Early Show Thursday,
the majority of sex offenders are men, but it's the
women who get a lot of the attention.

When a beautiful teacher seduces a student , some people
think, "What's the harm?"

But Koeppen spoke with one student who says his "affair"
with a teacher left him devastated.
More..

North Country Gazette

Woman Seeking Child Support Jailed On Rape Charge

North Country Gazette, New York, U.S.A., October 5, 2006

WARRENSBURG, NY, U.S.A. --A woman who went to Warren County Family Court
in an effort to make the father of her child pay child support is in jail, charged
with second degree rape and faces up to seven years in prison.

Kimberly A. Baker, 22, of Evergreen Lane, was criminally charged with
statutory rape after it was learned that father of her 2-year-old child was
only 13 years old when he had sex with her. The child was born on June 14, 2004. More
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Teacher Sentenced For Sex With Student

Woman Had Faced 66 Months In Prison

NBC Sandiego, U.S.A., September 26, 2006

Danielle Walls, rapist

Danielle Walls, 27, a former Clairemont High School history teacher, was
accused by prosecutors of having sex two years ago with a male student in her
10th-grade history class. Deputy District Attorney Dwayne Moring said Walls
had sex with the boy 10 to 25 times at four or five hotels around the county.

On Tuesday, Walls was sentenced to one year in jail and will also be on probation
for five years. Walls had faced up to five years and six months in prison. She
could have been sentenced to as much as 16 years in prison if she had been convicted
of all the original charges. More
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Husband Cooker Loses Appeal

Karen Knight stabbed her common-law husband, 44-year-old Mr Price, 37 times
with a butcher's knife before skinning him and hanging his hide from a meat
hook in their lounge room on February 29, 2000.

She then decapitated him and put his head in a pot on the stove, baked flesh
from his buttocks and cooked vegetables and gravy as side dishes to serve to
Mr Price's children. More..

Mother pleads guilty to molesting son for 'master'

Ottawa Sun, By TONY BLAIS, May 2 , 2006

EDMONTON -- A 38-year-old Edmonton woman admitted yesterday she sent
sexual pictures of herself and her young son to her Ottawa "master" in an online
chat room specializing in bondage.

The woman, who has cerebral palsy and uses a motorized wheelchair, pleaded
guilty to one count of sexual interference with a person under 14 and one count
of transmitting child pornography. More
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More women charged in sex cases

By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY, November 30, 2005

In courtrooms nationwide this month, at least seven women four of them teachers
have been charged or sentenced for having sex with boys, mostly teenagers. One
of the women is pregnant.

Tuesday in Georgia, Lisa Lynette Clark, 37, was indicted in the molestation
of her son's 15-year-old friend, who she says is the father of the baby she's
expecting. She was arrested one day after marrying the boy.

No definitive data exists on whether more females are sexually abusing children.
Yet the number arrested for sex crimes has risen in five of the past six years
as more people consider molestation of boys as heinous as that of girls.

"There's been a decline in the double standard. That's why you're seeing
more of these cases," says David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children
Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. As more women enter law
enforcement, he says the old attitude that boys are willing, even lucky, participants
has changed. More
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Female Teacher Re-Arrested in Alleged Sex Assault Case

ABC News - KVIA-TV, TX, U.S.A. October 5, 2005

EL PASO, TX. [U.S.A.] - An El Paso school teacher faces another criminal
complaint in New Mexico, which means she's now been charged six times. ABC-7
has learned that Las Cruces Police have again arrested 52-year-old Donna McKnight
for alleged sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old boy.

Ms. McKnight was previously charged with one count of Criminal Sexual Penetration,
one count of Criminal Sexual Contact, and two other related charges in Dona
Ana County. She was also charged with one count of Indecency with a Child by
exposure in El Paso County. More..

EP Teacher/Husband Face More Abuse Accusations

KFOX News, TX, USA, August 29, 2005 -- by: Elizabeth O'Hara

An El Paso teacher and her husband face new allegations of sexual abuse, this time allegedly involving their children

Las Cruces Police arrested 53 year old Donna McKnight and her husband, Ronald, Monday morning at the Century-21 Motel off North Main Street. Police were alerted to the couple by a family member and say the two were not trying to flee but were allegedly going to see an attorney.
Both are being held on $50,000 dollar cash bonds.
More..

Female Teacher's Sex Trial Begins

NBC5i TV, Dallas-Fortworth, Texas, U.S.A. August 2, 2005

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A 13-year-old boy took the witness stand in the
Tarrant County Courthouse Tuesday to testify against a teacher at a Catholic
school. The boy told jurors that he and the teacher had a sexual relationship ,
and that she promised the boy she would leave her husband so she and the boy
could get married when he turned 18.

The allegations of sexual contact included episodes of bondage, during which
30-year-old Dawn Reiser is accused of tying up the boy to engage in repeated
sexual encounters. The prosecution produced scarves allegedly used by Reiser
to bind the boy.

The jury also saw love letters allegedly sent by Reiser to the boy.
A DNA expert testified about saliva that sealed the envelopes. More
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Judge Delivers Sentence In Teacher's Sex Trial

Dawn Reiser To Serve 8-Year Prison Sentence

NBC5i TV, Dallas-Forthworth, Texas, U.S.A.,
August 3, 2005

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Fort Worth judge Thursday sentenced a Grapevine
teacher for having sex with her 13-year-old student.

Judge Wayne Salvent followed the jury's recommendation and sentenced
former seventh-grade teacher Dawn Reiser, 30, to as many as eight years in prison
and at least two years of probation.

NBC 5 reported that Reiser was sentenced to 10 years of probation to
be served concurrently with her prison term. If she serves the full eight years,
she would serve two years of probation. More
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Is Johnny sleeping with his teacher?

Edmonton Sun, By MINDELLE JACOBS, February 2, 2006

Once upon a time, if parents found out their teenage sons were having
sex, the most they had to worry about was if the kids were using birth control.

These days, there's another worry: Is little Johnny sleeping with his
teacher?

When I was in high school three decades ago, I don't recall reading
about a single instance anywhere of a female teacher becoming sexually involved
with a male student.

In the past few years, however, the reported incidence of female educators
engaging in sexual hijinks with male students has been, if not routine, certainly
far from a rarity.

The latest case to hit the press is that of a 40-year-old Ontario teacher
charged last week with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old male student. More
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Abuse cases face double standard

When a female teacher in Tennessee was charged this week with having sex with a 13-year-old male student, the case focused attention on a type of sexual
abuse that often goes unreported.

While there is a greater awareness of such crimes, the Tennessee prosecutor
pursuing the recent case, along with several psychologists, say such incidents
are still viewed less seriously than those involving grown men and girls.

"Unfortunately, they look at it as the 'Mrs. Robinson syndrome' and
think everything is OK," says Dale Potter, district attorney for Warren and
Van Buren counties in Tennessee. He was referring to the woman in the 1967 film
The Graduate who seduces a younger man.

"But it's my understanding there are some long-term effects for male
victims in this kind of situation," he says. "And from my perspective, a sex-abuse
case is a sex-abuse case. We don't look the other way as to who the victim is
and who the suspect is."

Pamela Turner, 27, an elementary school teacher in McMinnville, Tenn.,
was charged Monday with having sex with a student at his home and at school. More
..

Female teacher jailed over affair

Thursday, May 5, 2005

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- An Australian female teacher has been
jailed for six months for having sex with a teenage student, with a warning
from the judge that future offenders could not expect such "lenient" treatment.

Karen Louise Ellis, a 37-year-old physical education teacher, had earlier
received a suspended sentence of 22 months after she pleaded guilty to six counts
of sexual penetration with a boy aged under 16.

But the Supreme Court of Victoria's Court of Appeal in Melbourne upheld
an appeal by prosecutors against the leniency of that sentence, saying that
mother-of-three Ellis should have been sentenced to two years' jail on each
of the counts. More
..

CanadianCRC editor: Notice the words "having
sex" in the article and in the title "affair". This is
gender discrimination. You won't find articles that call it an "affair"
when the sexual offender is a 37 year old male teacher and the
victim is a teenage girl under 16 years of age. Why did the judge consider giving, in the judge's own words, a "lenient" sentence?
A 37 year old man would not have initially received a suspended sentence for
6 counts of sexual penetration of girl under 16 years of age.

Mother faces 22 boy-sex charges

The Age, Australia, By Selma Milovanovic, December 4, 2004

A female integration aide at a Victorian school has been charged with
sexual offences against a boy in her care aged under 16.

The woman, 36, an integration aide at a government secondary school
on the Mornington Peninsula, worked with the boy, who suffers from language
difficulties, three days a week.

The student is not intellectually disabled.

Most of the offences are believed to have happened at the boy's home.
The woman is believed to have lived with the student and his family for some
time this year while going through a traumatic separation. The alleged sexual
affair took place over eight months.

The teenager is believed to have recently confessed the details to
his parents. More
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KID-SEX SHOCKER

New York Post, By LEONARD GREENE and DAN MANGAN, November 8, 2004

A 29-year-old Connecticut woman accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old
boy for months says she considers the little neighbor her "boyfriend" and hopes
to marry him someday, authorities said yesterday.

"I don't want anyone but you!" Tammy Imre allegedly wrote in a letter to
the boy, who was a playmate of Imre's 7-year-old daughter. More
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Media / Media Bias

Media makes light of sexual assault on 8-year-old boy

Earlier this week, a 29-year-old Connecticut woman, Tammy Imre was
charged with one count each of sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor.
The charges stem from sexual assaults committed on an 8-year-old boy, who was
a playmate of her 7-year-old daughter. Imre claimed that the little boy was
her "boyfriend" whom she planned to marry some day and did not know how many
times she had sexually assaulted him. On some occasions these assaults took
place in front of the single mothers little girl. More
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29 Year old female perpetrator of sexual assault on 8 year old boy claims
she's the "victim"

Tammy Imre, 29, a receptionist in Stratford, Conn., was charged with repeatedly
having sex with an 8-year-old boy. Imre's mother blamed the boy. Its not her
. . . she was just too friendly; that's all, said the mother. He's the one who
needs to be looked at.

Picking Up the Pieces

Husband of Teacher Accused of Having Sex With Student Stunned, Confused

Owen Lafave (left) says he still loves his wife, Debra, a teacher, even though
she allegedly had sex with one of her students.

ABC NEWS Sept. 16, 2004 The estranged husband of a 23-year-old Tampa
teacher accused of having sex with her 14-year-old student says he still loves
his wife even after filing for divorce last week. More
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Acceptable Suspects? Why Female Sex Offenders Generate So Much Less Outrage Than Males

Sept. 30, 2004 Mary Kay Letourneau's plans to marry the former student
she was convicted of sexually assaulting when he was just 12 years old are shocking,
but have generated relatively little public outrage. More..

Mistake for Love - Former High School Teacher Regrets Affair With Her One-Time Student

Heather Ingram says she now regrets having an affair with her former
student.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 30 /04 Until Heather Ingram
met Dusty Dickeson, she never considered risking her successful teaching career
for the attention of a boy, even if he embodied everything she desired during
her own high school days. More..

Hurting the cradle: women seducing boys

Health professionals worry that the reported
incidents of women raping young boys are few, the actual
occurrence is believed to be higher and is causing long-term
psychological damage to victims.

"In terms of the most current statistics on
child abuse, this is not reflected as a large problem. But it is
my sense that it is even more grossly under-reported and
under-recognised than the typical child abuse scenario involving
an older male perpetrator and younger female victim," says Dr.
Judith Leiba, head of the Child Guidance Clinic at the
Bustamante Hospital for Children in Kingston. "We have seen a
few examples where the helper was involved, and in another
situation, it was an older female cousin. Usually these boys
were in the age group of five to eight years old," Dr. Leiba
reports.
More..

Female Teacher Charged With Sex Assault on Seventh-Grade Boy

MORRISTOWN, N.J.  A 35-year-old seventh-grade teacher was charged with having sex with one of her
students at least 20 times at the teacher's home.

Jodi Thorp, 35, surrendered to authorities Monday on charges of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated
sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors claim she had sex with the boy at her
Mendham home between June 2001 and September 2002. The boy is now 15.

The boy, whose name was withheld, had been in Thorp's seventh-grade social studies class and was one of the
first participants in a nonprofit business Thorp ran called HUGS, Helping Underprivileged and Gifted
Students, prosecutors said. More..

Teen killer and sexual mutilator, Karla Homolka, gets out of jail July 5th,
2005, 1 year from today

PORN VICTIM

Kids of abusive 'monster' got life sentence

He's a man in pain, chased by the ghosts of his past. His greatest fear
as a child wasn't the monsters in his closet; his greatest fear was the monster
he called "mom." More..

ABUSING THEIR TRUST.

What Drives Women Like Convicted Paedophile Carolyn Bromily to Hurt
the Children They are Supposed to be Caring For?

The Manchester Evening News ( UK ) Page 10. Friday, January 28,
2000

The discovery over the last decade that child abuse was endemic in
care homes across England and Wales was a body blow to society. The idea that
vulnerable youngsters were taken from perceived danger only to be placed
in the hands of evil paedophiles was deeply shocking.

Several men are currently serving significant jail sentences and long-
term police inquiries are continuing in Greater Manchester and across the country

The latest appalling case to come to light was that of a care worker
who abused boys as young as 12 for 15 sordid years at a residential school in
Cheshire. But this was more startling than any of its predecessors, for in this
case the predatory paedophiles was a woman.

Carolyn Bromiley, 36, from Warrington, had sexual intercourse with
boys from 1984 until her arrest last year. More
..

The Manchester Evening News

Pervert Woman Carer who Preyed on Boys is Jailed

A WOMAN preyed on little boys for sex for 15 years while working as
a house mother in a care home for troubled youngsters.

Today Carolyn Bromiley was starting a five-year jail term for what
the judge said was "the worst case of a woman abusing children in her care any
court in the land has had to face."

The serial paedophiles groomed boys between the ages of 12 and 14 before
involving them in intercourse and other sexual activity.

Warrington Crown Court heard she had a warped perception of the boys
and referred to her abuse as "relationships." The 37-year-old mother-of-one
believed her virgin victims desired her sexually and after sex she would tell
some of them that she loved them. More
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When Ms. Teacher Goes After Male Pupil

FOX News, U.S.A., By Catherine Donaldson-Evans, February 12, 2005

Female teachers accused of sex crimes against underage male
students have been grabbing headlines lately. Many of them are young
and beautiful, their stories sordid and intriguing.

But to law enforcement, they're something else criminals who
have committed statutory rape against a minor.

This week alone, two cases have hit the news: Cops say one
Texas teacher, Kathy Denise White had sex with a 17-year-old, and Tennessee
teacher Pamela Rogers Turner had sex with a 13-year-old boy.

They join at least three other recent cases: Florida teacher
Debra LaFave (search), 24, is expected to plead insanity to charges
she had sex with a 14-year-old student , according to her lawyer; California
teacher Sarah Bench-Salorio, 28, allegedly molested two boys when they
were 12 and 14; and 33-year-old California teacher Rebecca Boicelli
was arrested last month on statutory rape and related charges after
DNA tests confirmed that a former student fathered her 2-year-old baby
when he was 16. More
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OTTAWA - An Ottawa teen who befriended girls on
Facebook and other social media, then forced them to
work as escorts, has been found guilty of 30 of 33
charges against her.

The 17-year-old — identified as the ringleader of
the group — was found guilty Wednesday on counts
including human trafficking, forcible confinement,
assault, robbery, sexual assault, child luring and
distributing child pornography.
More..

VANCOUVER - Canada's largest study into the sexual exploitation of street
kids and runaways has shattered some myths about who the abusers might be
- with the most surprising finding being that many are women seeking sex
with young males.

"Some youth in each gender were exploited by women with more than three
out of four (79 per cent) sexually exploited males reporting exchanging
sex for money or goods with a female," said Elizabeth Saewyc, associate
professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia and principal
investigator for the study conducted by Vancouver's McCreary Centre Society.

A surprising 86% of survivors of sexual
abuse were not believed when they said the abuser was a woman.

Many myths were exposed, such as the one that women only sexually abused
when coerced by men - they in fact played the lead part. Also the myth that
women are incapable of cruelty - what was shown was beyond belief.

Women commit 25% of all child sexual abuse

250,000 children in UK have been sexually abused by women

Women in our society have been portrayed as victims, but somewhere within
their victimisation they have learned that to abuse children gave them a
sense of power, control, agency, and therefore they use the abuse of children
to gain those things.

Jacqui Saradjiam: (clinical psychologist)
I think people find it so difficult to see that women sexually abuse children
because the whole view of women is of nurturers, carers, protectors - people
who do anything to look after children - and they see the women as victims
rather than enemies or perpetrators of any abuse.

Michelle Elliott: (Director - children's charity Kidscape)
I think the issue strikes at the core of what we perceive ourselves as women
to be. I think that it's easier to think that it's men - men the enemy,
somehow - but it can't be women - it's one thing women can't do. Women can
be equal, we can be free, we can be in charge of companies, but we can't
sexually abuse children - That's a load of rubbish.
More..

A married primary schoolteacher was jailed for 15 months yesterday after admitting having sex with an underage
teenage boy.

Hannah Grice, 32, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to two counts of indecent assault on the boy, who was aged
14 and 15 at the time of the offences.

Sentencing her at Stafford crown court, Judge John Shand told Grice, from Cannock, Staffordshire, she had abused
her position of trust.

"Cases such as this are, of course, made worse by the fact that you were a member of the teaching profession," he
told her. "You should have been very sensitive indeed to child welfare issues." Grice was also ordered to register
as a sex offender for 10 years. More..

"... the existence of a double standard in the care and
treatment of male victims, and the invisibility and normalization of
violence and abuse toward boys and young men in our society.

Despite the fact that over 300 books and articles on male
victims have been published in the last 25 to 30 years, boys and teen males
remain on the periphery of the discourse on child abuse.

Few workshops about males can be found at most child abuse
conferences and there are no specialized training programs for clinicians.
Male-centred assessment is all but non-existent and treatment programs are
rare. If we are talking about adult males, the problem is even
greater. A sad example of this was witnessed recently in Toronto. After a
broadcast of The Boys of St. Vincent, a film about the abuse of boys
in a church-run orphanage, the Kids' Help Phone received over 1,000
calls from distraught adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It is
tragic in a way no words can capture that these men had no place to turn to
other than a children's crisis line." More ..